Meanings of active listeners in English

Pandora has about almost 68 million active listeners.

The company has about 70 million active listeners, up 35 percent year-over-year.

The company said that active listeners in January fell to 73.4 million from 76.2 million in December.

Rival Pandora Media Inc said in October it had 76.5 million active listeners as of Sept. 30.

Apple's streaming music service will compete with popular existing services such as Spotify and Pandora, which has about 70 million active listeners.

Almost a decade old with 72 million active listeners, Pandora is one of the most popular streaming music services in the world.

Analysts on average had expected 78.5 million active listeners and 5.5 billion listener-hours, according to market research firm FactSet StreetAccount.

The company said that active listeners in January fell to 73.4 million from 76.2 million in December due to seasonality.

Meanwhile, Sirius' rival online streaming music service, Pandora Media Inc, said the number of active listeners rose 13 percent to 76.2 million in December.

Pandora last month reported disappointing fourth-quarter results with active listeners of 81.1 million at the end of December, a slight fall from a year earlier.

The company said the number of active listeners in the first quarter ended March 31 was 79.2 million, with total listener hours of 5.30 billion.